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A month from now, you will undoubtedly come across numerous stories, blog posts, articles, videos, and whatnot giving you reasons to be thankful. Let this be one of the first to get you thinking about that notion and also letting you know why I have been thankful for months now despite the myriad problems plaguing our country at this time from the pandemic to ravaging fires to ravaging crowds in the streets of Portland, Kenosha, and many other cities.
Many times, I have a long list of topics that I want and intend to write stories about. I write these ideas down in my current idea notebook and, truth be told, I only actually write about those ideas perhaps one out of three or four times.
Although I am closing in on one hundred stories posted to Medium since joining on February 8th of this year, I have had hundreds of others on my two failed and defunct blogs as well as another hundred-plus on Blogger, a free blogging site hosted by Google, so long as they let them park there for free.
My notebooks are also filled with many ideas for mobile applications, tee-shirt designs, eCommerce sites, and numerous other things.
Meanwhile, what has undoubtedly been one of the most stressful years in anyone’s memory is happening right here and right now in 2020. What could have been a situation for the current…